Dwarkesh Patel
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first heard Feb 2024
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But just to tease it a bit, I think that the way that people currently think about an intelligence explosion is very clumsy, because either people dismiss the possibility of AI speeding up AI progress altogether, or they assume that some kind of god pops out the other end.
They don't reason carefully about what it looks like to have a period where AI progress is much faster than usual, but have that happen atop LLMs and the particular kinds of intelligences that LLMs are.
But I'll save that for next time.
In the meanwhile, if you want to read this blog post or all the other blog posts I write or be alerted when I write a future blog post, go sign up for my newsletter at my website, dwarkesh.com.
All right, I'll see you later.
Hi, my name is Ina.
I work at Quizlet.
If you've gone to school in the last 20 years, you've heard of Quizlet.
If you haven't, what?
Such a diversified desk.
I was really excited to give him a New York Times cooking subscription so that we could share recipes.
And we even just shared a recipe the other day.
The New York Times contributes to our quality time together.
Okay, I'm back with Ada Palmer, who is a science fiction author, composer, historian at the University of Chicago.
Ada, this time I want to talk to you about Machiavelli.
Yes.
So he writes The Prince, he dedicates it to Lorenzo de Piero de' Medici, and gives it to him in 1513, and he says in the final chapter, you're the only person who can bring Italy from its current place of ruin and ravage.
Why were things so bad?
What is the historical context in which he's writing The Prince?
So he wants the Medici's basically to not unify Italy, but stabilize Italy at the very least.
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